[REQUEST] HP Pavilion dv8-1200 series Whitelist Removal

[tical2k]

I just edited the Advanced enabled BIOS to have my atheros wifi card in the whitelist. So no biggie if nobody can combine the two.

[zarboz]

I just edited the Advanced enabled BIOS to have my atheros wifi card in the whitelist. So no biggie if nobody can combine the two.

what tools did you use to complete this ?

[tical2k]

what tools did you use to complete this ?

Basically I used EzH2O and winhex. I wrote a small tutorial to do this on a thread on the insanelymac board. I wouldn't attempt it unless your comfortable doing so or know how to recover. The link to the post is:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.p...pic=221653&view=findpost&p=1547303

It was inspired from work on here. It should be noted there are many ways to get th device and subvendor numbers.

[zarboz]

what tools did you use to complete this ?

Basically I used EzH2O and winhex. I wrote a small tutorial to do this on a thread on the insanelymac board. I wouldn't attempt it unless your comfortable doing so or know how to recover. The link to the post is:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.p...pic=221653&view=findpost&p=1547303

It was inspired from work on here. It should be noted there are many ways to get th device and subvendor numbers.

i can recover no issue i was just looking for some where to start although i had read that multiple times i didnt understand the DMI tables quite fully.

I will read and read some then

pps your link didnt work for me whats the title of the thread as there are 5 or 6 about bios hacking on insanely mac

[tical2k]

Sorry... Here's what the post said:

For all those wondering. It IS possible to modify the bios to change the whitelist. Relatively simple too. In osx, boot and install the lspci tool. Just google "lspci for snow leopard" and you'll find it. Then, run this in osx to get your device id and subversion:
lspci -nnv

You'll see something like this (my info, i had airport in extra bay):

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:4239] (rev 35)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:1311]

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Unknown device [106b:0089]

Its important to get these numbers for the wifi card you want to use! I suggest doing as I did and putting it in the secondary bay with no antenna connected.

Now the bytecode in our BIOS will be "backwards" So do something like this reversing the bytes as below:

Intel: 8086:4239 (8680:3942)
8086:1311 (8680:1113)
Hex Dev String: 8680394286801113
BC: 14e4:4312 (e414:1243)
106b:0089 (6b10:8900)
Hex Dev String: e41412436b108900

All this is now done in windows:
1) install winrar from rarlabs.com
2) Download your bios from hp.com.
2a) Run the installer, but do NOT flash, it will extract to Program Files (x86)/SPXXXX/
2b) Copy the .exe in this folder to somewhere where you will be working, User/Documents, etc. Then right click it and "extract here" this will extract your bios.fd probably called 7001.fd or similar.
3) Find and download EZH20 2.1.0.4
4) Download and purchase winHex (cant write resident memory without registered version) or use another hex editor that can read a programs resident memory.
5) Load .fd bios file in ezh20
6) Open winhex and goto Tools, OpenRAM and select the ezh20 process and select "entire ram"
7) I forget where it is, but you can search and replace hex values. In my case, I searched and replaced all instances of "8680394286801113" with "e41412436b108900" which effectively removed my old card from the white list and put the new BCM one in.
8) save the bios from ezh20 in the same location but dont overwrite the old one ( maybe you can not sure what this does to resident memory though ).
9) move the original bios to, say, 7001_sv.fd, then move your saved bios to 7001.fd (whatever your original was)
10) Pray you didn't mess anything other than device ids up and run the flash program in the extracted exe's directory.
11) It reboots then says "104 Error" because your old oem card is no longer whitelisted!

[zarboz]

Sorry... Here's what the post said:

For all those wondering. It IS possible to modify the bios to change the whitelist. Relatively simple too. In osx, boot and install the lspci tool. Just google "lspci for snow leopard" and you'll find it. Then, run this in osx to get your device id and subversion:
lspci -nnv

You'll see something like this (my info, i had airport in extra bay):

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:4239] (rev 35)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:1311]

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Unknown device [106b:0089]

Its important to get these numbers for the wifi card you want to use! I suggest doing as I did and putting it in the secondary bay with no antenna connected.

Now the bytecode in our BIOS will be "backwards" So do something like this reversing the bytes as below:

Intel: 8086:4239 (8680:3942)
8086:1311 (8680:1113)
Hex Dev String: 8680394286801113
BC: 14e4:4312 (e414:1243)
106b:0089 (6b10:8900)
Hex Dev String: e41412436b108900

All this is now done in windows:
1) install winrar from rarlabs.com
2) Download your bios from hp.com.
2a) Run the installer, but do NOT flash, it will extract to Program Files (x86)/SPXXXX/
2b) Copy the .exe in this folder to somewhere where you will be working, User/Documents, etc. Then right click it and "extract here" this will extract your bios.fd probably called 7001.fd or similar.
3) Find and download EZH20 2.1.0.4
4) Download and purchase winHex (cant write resident memory without registered version) or use another hex editor that can read a programs resident memory.
5) Load .fd bios file in ezh20
6) Open winhex and goto Tools, OpenRAM and select the ezh20 process and select "entire ram"
7) I forget where it is, but you can search and replace hex values. In my case, I searched and replaced all instances of "8680394286801113" with "e41412436b108900" which effectively removed my old card from the white list and put the new BCM one in.
8) save the bios from ezh20 in the same location but dont overwrite the old one ( maybe you can not sure what this does to resident memory though ).
9) move the original bios to, say, 7001_sv.fd, then move your saved bios to 7001.fd (whatever your original was)
10) Pray you didn't mess anything other than device ids up and run the flash program in the extracted exe's directory.
11) It reboots then says "104 Error" because your old oem card is no longer whitelisted!

now if only i can find the advanced menu show/hide flag

[tical2k]

I wish I knew as well :/ can't help you there unfortunately.

[nd_clutch]

I noticed there is an unlocked menus version of HP's SP49106 in the repository, but there isn't a similar BIOS with a removed whitelist for this BIOS. I searched through the website and found several references to this BIOS with links to download the BIOS with the WL removed, but the links were all dead.

Any way of getting the whitelist removed on this? Trying to replace my stock WiFi card with an Ubiquiti SR71.

[sovem]

I noticed there is an unlocked menus version of HP's SP49106 in the repository, but there isn't a similar BIOS with a removed whitelist for this BIOS. I searched through the website and found several references to this BIOS with links to download the BIOS with the WL removed, but the links were all dead.

Any way of getting the whitelist removed on this? Trying to replace my stock WiFi card with an Ubiquiti SR71.

WLAN/WWAN whitelist removed
Bios mod: HP_Pavilion_dv8_F.25_sp49106_7001F25_NWL
https://www.box.com/s/kqou6jr1vz9tb9prxned
Flash from Windows (run InsydeFlash as "Administrator").
Please post results.

[duke-2004]

I noticed there is a sp49106 in the repository. I tried it and it works. However, I was running a whitelist removed version of this bios. Is there any way to combine these two?

Also, I was looking for a way to manually change my RAM timings. The ram I have is rated/tested t 9-9-9-24, but it seems the bios is hardcoded to 7-7-7-20. i see the arrandale chipset settings are basically to control the RAM speed. 800/1067/1333 MHz. no matter the speed set, memtest86 always reports 7-7-7-20 as the timings.

A side note, and maybe this might not be the place to ask, but....

The computer has 2x8GB sticks so 16GB total. I know hp says "max 8gb" but c'mon 64-bit architecture can surely address more than 8GB. In fact, the computer boots fine in [32bit] ubuntu 12.04, reports 16gb and runs fine. However, it starts to boot then reboots in [64bit] windows 7 or [64bit] os x 10.8 . I suspect the ram spd is being ignored in these oses, causing the ram to be overclocked, but linux is honoring it?

This is a dv8t-1200 btw.

Original bios if needed:
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp49001-49500/sp49106.exe

Advanced Tab enabled:
http://www.bios-mods.com/BIOS/Insyde/sp4...miloml.exe

Whitelist removed:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12374710/dv8_F.2...d_bios.zip

There is any way to re-post this 'Whitelist removal', please? The link is dead.
Thank you...